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Drawing, Gelt Bridge Looking up the River, Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson
Carmichael, 1835.
An unfinished viaduct, upon which work groups of
construction workers, towers above the river of the
foreground which is spanned by a single span stone bridge
upon which two women stand conversing. A third woman stands
leaning on the wooden fence which leads to the bridge. To
either side of composition rise wooded riverbanks; a
whitewashed house stands to extreme right amongst the trees.
Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction
of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of
the Rail Company.
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